r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 29d ago

Soft Paywall Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell survivor testified she met Donald Trump at age 14

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/07/29/jeffrey-epstein-survivor-testified-she-met-donald-trump-at-age-14/85407198007/
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u/OkayButFoRealz 29d ago

A child sex abuse survivor from Palm Beach County who testified at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in 2021 said she had met Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s when she was 14 and was once a contestant in Trump's Miss Teen USA beauty pageant.

She was trafficked through Trump's pageant.

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u/troubadoursmith Colorado 29d ago edited 29d ago

When Trump says his falling out with Epstein was over Jeff hiring Trump's workers, this is what he really means. Poaching his victims, more like.

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u/Phedis America 29d ago

The falling out, from what I understand, was when Epstein wanted to show Trump a mansion he wanted to buy in Palm Beach (if I remember correctly). After touring the mansion Trump went behind Epstein’s back and outbid him for the property paying $40 million. Apparently during this time Trump was in dire straights financially and couldn’t actually afford the property. According to the story a Russian oligarch fronted Trump the money. Trump sold the property two years later to the oligarch for $95 million. Not sure the begging the scenes reasoning for all that. Money laundering or financial fraud of some sort I guess. I can’t remember if it was Epstein telling the story or a reporter or biographer.